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Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa

By Robert Harms

Cooperatives and Development: Agricultural Politics in Ghana and Uganda

A Taste of Freedom: Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa in Rural South Africa, 1924-30

By Helen Bradford

Latin America, Economic Imperialism and the State: The Political Economy of the External Connection from Independence to the Present

By Christopher Abel, Colin M. Lewis

Population, Health and Nutrition in the Sahel: Issues in the Welfare of Selected West African Communities

By Allan G. Hill

Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil Harmsworth King and the Glory Days of Fleet Street

By Ruth Dudley Edwards

The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy

By Christopher Leonard

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

By Walter Scheidel

Leaf of Allah: Khat and Agricultural Transformation in Harerge, Ethiopia, 1875-1991

By Ezekiel Gebissa

Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa

By Frederick Cooper (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Africa's Moment

By Jean-Michel Severino, Olivier Ray

On the March: Labour Rebellions in the British Caribbean, 1934-39

By Professor O Nigel Bolland

Wcs;Labour In The Caribbean

By Malcolm Cross, Gad Heuman

A New System of Slavery: Export of Indian Labour Overseas, 1830-1920

By Hugh Tinker

Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization: The United Africa Company 1929-1987

By D. K. Fieldhouse (Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow, Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge)

Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa: The Palm Oil Trade in the Nineteenth Century

By Martin Lynn (Queen's University Belfast)

The Poor and the Powerless: Economic Policy and Change in the Caribbean

By Clive Thomas

When the State Fails: Studies on Intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War

By Tunde Zack-Williams (University of Central Lancashire)

Manoeuvring in an Environment of Uncertainty: Structural Change and Social Action in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Boel Berner, Per Trulsson

Culture and Context in Sudan: The Process of Market Incorporation in Dar Masalit

By Dennis Tully

Culture and Context in Sudan: The Process of Market Incorporation in Dar Masalit

By Dennis Tully

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants

By Gladwell, Malcolm

The Globalist: Peter Sutherland - His Life and Legacy

By John Walsh

The Forever War

By Dexter Filkins

Stop Mugging Grandma: The 'Generation Wars' and Why Boomer Blaming Won't Solve Anything

By Jennie Bristow

Economists for Beginners

By Bernard Canavan

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

By Joseph A. Schumpeter

A History of Economic Thought: From Aristotle to Arrow

By Charles E. Staley

When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies

By Andy Beckett

An Economic Theory of Democracy

By Anthony Downs